POLICE will conduct another eviction exercise at the Rabiagini settlement at Two-Mile, Port Moresby, when they have completed the Four-Mile Works compound task, a top cop says.
Acting Assistant Police Commissioner for the National Capital District and Central, Benjamin Turi, said the court had ordered another eviction exercise at Two-Mile Hill.
“The lawyer of the landowner has sent a letter notifying us of the title,” he said.
“We already carried out the first one (eviction) based on a court order from 2022. Before that, a police unit was shot at while attending to a situation.”
Turi said other evictions to take place in the capital city included:
HOHOLA Suksuk Tyre Service and towards the Pitstop fuel station, where people were keeping pigs;
GORDON National Housing Commission (NHC) flats next to Tan Trading;
EIGHT-Mile next to Glory Estate;
NINE-Mile and Bush Wara; and,
ERIMA under the flyover bridge.
ACP Turi said they were all outstanding court orders from last year. Awareness has been conducted and evictions are now being carried out.
“Once we get rid of all the old flats and makeshift shelters, Gordon will be safer for people to move around,” Turi said.
“For Gordon, they had lost the court case and an eviction was supposed to have been carried out some years ago under former police commanders, but it didn’t happen.
“We are enforcing those orders now.”
Turi described the area at Gordon as an eyesore and a criminal hub for pickpockets and petty crime suspects.
“The city will be cleaned up and people must move out from these settlements. Another eviction will take place at Eight-Mile,” he said.
“These are State land and some already have owners.
“It is illegal to squat on land that does not belong to you.”
He added that people living and conducting markets under the Erima flyover will also be removed.